Data Package Creator

Turning a CSV into a Data Package means creating a file, datapackage.json, which houses the metadata associated with the CSV. The Data Package Creator simplifies this process.

Provide the Creator with the URL of a CSV and it will return a well-formed JSON object with the required fields, as well as a raw JSON URL (the JSON URL serves as a basic machine accessible API).

Data Package Viewer

The metadata included with Data Packages makes it possible to construct a simple view of the data. We now provide an online Data Package Viewer to do this for you.

Just provide the link to your Data Package and Viewer generates a user-friendly description, a graph of the data, and a summary of the data fields. Here, for example, is the Viewer’s display of US wheat production data.

New datasets

The biggest data news was having our first ‘out-of-the-blue’ contribution of an ‘official’ dataset! Evan Wheeler pinged us to offer a comprehensive collection of country codes for the world’s countries in Simple Data Format. Here is the:

New standards pages

Key here is providing simple, easy-to-understand, information and so we’ve revamped the standards page and created two new pages dedicated to providing simple introduction and overview for Data Package and Simple Data Format: